Of course class is a contentious issue for many and no one can really agree on what makes you one class or another and many would argue that it is possible to climb the social ladder.
I come from a family of blue collar workers, typically working class with the relatively low wages that go with it.
I have been told by many that my university education actually excludes me from the working class and puts me firmly into the middle classes.
Is that true? Or am I still working class because of my family? A lot of people would laugh at me, with my BA in English, claiming to be working class. Yet I've had the privilege of a good education (for which I have had to work bloody hard for) but not a very privileged upbringing.
Ah, the archaic class system of Britain. Sometimes you just gotta laugh at it.
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Date: 2009-04-21 09:34 pm (UTC)I come from a family of blue collar workers, typically working class with the relatively low wages that go with it.
I have been told by many that my university education actually excludes me from the working class and puts me firmly into the middle classes.
Is that true? Or am I still working class because of my family? A lot of people would laugh at me, with my BA in English, claiming to be working class. Yet I've had the privilege of a good education (for which I have had to work bloody hard for) but not a very privileged upbringing.
Ah, the archaic class system of Britain. Sometimes you just gotta laugh at it.